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UPDATE: Police ID man in suspicious Richmond death

A body was found in the area of Garden City and Odlin Roads in Richmond just after 8:30am Thursday
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UPDATE: Police have identified the man found dead in a Richmond home as 37-year-old Michael Thompson.

Thompson, who was a Richmond resident, was known to police, according to theIntegrated Homicide Investigation Team.

Homicide investigators were deployed to an abandoned home in Richmond after a body was found there Thursday morning.

Richmond RCMP say the body was found in the 9000 block of Odlin Road, just a few blocks north of the new Central at Garden City shopping centre, around 8:30 a.m.

As the death had been deemed suspicious, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken over the investigation.

No other details are being released at this time, police said.


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I began my journalistic journey at Black Press Media as a community reporter in my hometown of Maple Ridge, B.C.
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